Pierre Bourdieu Quotes
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
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I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
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Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.
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I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.
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When you are in a situation or a crisis, you need to define, what is the unique role that I can play?
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The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
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I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
